Black Chalk: the Launch Party Playlist

Here’s a playlist with the theme ‘Music From an Oxford College, 1990-91’, which will be the music at my US launch party, April 1 (click for details).

This is the music you would hear if, traveling back in time twenty-something years ago, you were to wander around my fictional Pitt College, music that would be playing on the bar’s jukebox, at one of the college bops* or pouring out from a student’s room.

Click here to open in Spotify (although a few of the tracks aren’t on Spotify and therefore won’t be available). Alternatively, I’ve embedded the Spotify track list at the bottom.

(*Bop is terrible Oxford slang for ‘disco’; although, arguably there is no good word for such an event, including the word ‘disco’.)

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Come on Eileen — Dexy’s Midnight Runners

The Eton Rifles — The Jam

Anarchy in the UK — Sex Pistols

Smells Like Teen Spirit — Nirvana

Freak Scene — Dinosaur Jr.

This Is How It Feels — Inspiral Carpets

Step On — Happy Mondays

There’s No Other Way — Blur

I Wanna Be Adored — The Stone Roses

Love Will Tear Us Apart — Joy Division

Tainted Love — Soft Cell

Bizarre Love Triangle — New Order

Cemetery Gates — The Smiths

Boys Don’t Cry — The Cure

Groove Is In The Heart — Deee-Lite

Loaded — Primal Scream

Revolution — The Beatles

Positively Fourth Street — Bob Dylan

Walk On The Wild Side — Lou Reed

Suffragette City —David Bowie

Maggie May — Rod Stewart

It’s The End of the World As We Know It — R.E.M.

Every Day Is Like Sunday — Morrissey

There She Goes — The La’s

Taste — Ride

Sit Down — James

I’m Free — The Soup Dragons

Debaser — Pixies

Should I Stay or Should I Go — The Clash

Nelson Mandela — The Special A.K.A.

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Now, to fully set the mood, light up something good, pop the cork on something bad and let’s all start talking shit about stuff we know nothing about like we’re world-class experts.